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Last year Yahoo secretly developed a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails at the demand of a U.S. government security agency. The software was programmed to search for specific information that was provided to Yahoo by U.S. intelligence officials.

Taxpayers paid for one scientist to have a bee sting his penis, and paid other researchers to figure out that cheerleaders look more attractive in a group than individually, according to a painful new survey of wasteful spending being released Tuesday by Sen. Jeff Flake.

What is it that keeps the Washington Post’s hyperventilating neocon scribbler Jennifer Rubin up at night? The fact that Ron Paul’s lifelong efforts to promote a peaceful foreign policy continue to light fires in the imaginations of his fellow Americans.

Ryan Moran is a small business owner in the United States. That means that while he pays large sums of money in taxes, employees people, and supplies goods that people want to buy, he is still villainized by people who don’t know what it’s like to run a business and who, usually, don’t pay much in taxes themselves.

I just can’t imagine how anyone with the ability for logical thought can think it’s a good idea to raise taxes on businesses right now (or ever). Consider these recent job and financial reports from major businesses: READ

The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T. MORE

Ron Paul, the former congressman and presidential candidate who sparked a libertarian “revolution” during his last two bids for the White House, is endorsing his son, Sen. Rand Paul, for president. READ MORE